Resort planners this week approved a site plan for the second phase of a bayfront event venue at Seacrets.
Owner, Leighton Moore, came before the Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday to seek site plan approval for the second phase of his Your Beach Bayfront Event Venue. Located at the Seacrets complex between 49th Street and Bay Overlook Lane, the addition will incorporate overflow dining to the west of the facility’s first-phase structures and covered dining and a deck bar to the north. “I think it’s the future,” Moore said of his event venue concept. “And in my case, the time has come.”
Last year, Moore came before the planning commission seeking approval for the first phase of an open bayfront venue with associated restrooms and food prep areas, as well as a change of use for the second and third floors of the ABC Liquor retail store from previously approved storage space to banquet and restaurant use associated with the Your Beach site. With construction well underway, officials told the commission this week that a second phase would build off improvements made at the site.
“Phase two of the project consists of expansion along the planter/elevated retaining wall that was constructed in phase one,” said architect Keith Iott. “A very important aspect of this project is the bulk of the work done in phase one was improving the infrastructure at this location.”